SilenX Effizio Performance Triple Heatpipe Silent CPU Heatsink Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,349 words · ~6 min read
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I'll be continuing my look at silent X's a physio line of heat sinks with the
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latest the performance Series so like the others it is designed for quiet
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performance less than 18 DB and this one says quietest noise levels uh just like
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all the others I've already had a look at the compact as well as the extreme
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over there and we're just waiting to do these last two so let's have a look at
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the specifications here you can pause the video and read them if you so
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desire weighs about a half a Kil
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so that is about I'm I'm roughing this
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so like 3/4 of a pound or so you've got three 6 mm heat pipe so that is
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substantially less than the extreme series cooler although it is less
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expensive so these are making direct contact with the bottom of the CPU or
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the top of the CPU so that means you do get slightly better thermal performance
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that way it is using a silen x fan as well as a
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new excuse me a new Universal mounting
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system now you've got a bunch of CPU logos here that shows all the different
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CPUs it can mount on which include am2 am2 plus am3 LGA 775 LGA 1156 LGA
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1366 and all of the CPUs that go in
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those sockets and trying to get the heat sink
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out so let's go ahead and have a look at the accessory package now that I've
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already looked at one of the lower end coolers and the highest end cooler from
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this series I'm going to go ahead and assume that this is going to be a fairly
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similar load out of equipment here
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although I do see one difference already unlike its Brethren this one
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uses fan Clips instead of the uh the little rubber Mount so it's a slight
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difference there uh then you've got a fan speed controller which was included
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with the others your AMD mounting hardware a thermal compound tube uh
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double-sided velcro for mounting the fan controller and you've got some mounting
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hardware screws and thumb screws and washers and such then you have the
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universal back plate which is compatible with all the sockets I listed before and
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that pretty much does it for accessories so let's have a look at the cooler
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itself ooh that's really thin okay I can
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tell you right off the bat I don't like this one quite as much as the others
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although I don't know what the retail price is going to be one thing that
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appeals to me right off the bat though this this really does is the fact that
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it's shaped like a
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radiator I don't know why I care about that but you you can see that what
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silent X is trying to do here is they're trying to focus all of the cooling just
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like with the extreme uh on the places where the fan blades are actually going
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to blow on them so you see you hold the fan here so they haven't wasted any
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material they're going ahead and they're taking all of the cooling potential of
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this they're going to dissipate a little bit of heat with this it'll get some incidental air flow from the fan and
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then basically they're taking the middle of the
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CPU they're taking the heat away from it and they're putting it right in the way
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of where the fan is going to be blowing the most air so that means not here not
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here right here right in that uh
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wheelhouse so to speak all right so let's um oh this is interesting so
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they've actually got little grommet spots on here for those rubber mounts
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but they haven't included them for some reason so we're going to go ahead and
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mount our fan using a uh using the clip
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mounting system so go ahead and just throw that on there it doesn't have an
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anti vibration Mount so that's one thing that um could probably be improved about
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this particular product and let's see if I can figure out how to use these on
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camera it's always fun when I try and figure out stuff on camera because like
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believe it or not it's hard I do have something else to concentrate on here I
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take a lot of flack for not figuring things out right away on camera but uh
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yeah it's hard it's harder than it looks I'll tell you that much okay so maybe
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that goes there and maybe this goes here
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I've never liked these fan Clips I think it's it's thermal right that started this
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nonsense this doesn't seem like you know the most uh intuitive userfriendly way
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to mount things but um I mean I guess it
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kind of works there we go it's on I don't know if I did it right but it's on
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there for Better or For Worse okay so I'm going to go ahead and
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uh put the other fan clip on and see if I've actually got that right now what
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you might notice as I flip the heat sink over is that it's not actually flat I'm
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just going to make sure that it doesn't go this way maybe it does maybe it goes
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this way maybe I did it wrong hold on does that go
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there huh it seems to kind of work either way so I mounted those two
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different ways I think but uh they both hold the fan on pretty good so whatever
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okay anyway it's actually at an angle
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and I'm going to go ahead and speculate although I can't say this for certain
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that the reason for that is they want to get a little bit more in accidental air flow blowing at the mosfet cooler so
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you'd probably want to position this if you have a typical case you'd probably
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want to position it this way so that it's blowing down a little bit towards
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the coolers at the back at the back of the motherboard here I'll show you an example of what I mean on uh this is an
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ASUS motherboard so you see that mosfet cooler in there the blue and gray one so
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if you position this cooler so that it actually sits on the
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motherboard this way it would blow down towards those keeping your motherboard
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cooler and hopefully keeping the components on there more reliable and uh
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overall happier so we've got a fan on here we have uh I already talked a lot
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about the uh the positioning of the heat pipes because really I mean you can
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throw more heat pipes at the problem but ultimately if you don't carry the heat
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to somewhere where you're going to be able to dissipate it it's not going to do you any good so we're going to do our
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obligatory finger shot where you can see that it's nice and flat even across
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these heat pipes that are machined right into the base we have our Universal hold
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down here we've also got a little heat sink here for dissipating a little bit
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more heat which I've seen featured on the other coolers in this series already
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we've got the um the slightly dimpled fins which I
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talked a lot about in the extreme overview and unboxing and that gives us
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a little bit more surface area for slightly better cooling compared to just
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a a flat aluminum fin so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look
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at the silenx aphysio performance CPU
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heat sink